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hyaline

/ˈhaɪəlɪn/

hyaline adjective: glassy, transparent; amorphous.

Adjective

hyaline (comparative more hyaline, superlative most hyaline)

  1. Glassy, transparent; amorphous.
    • And, as below she braids her hyaline hair, / Eyes her soft smiles reflected in the air […].1791, Erasmus Darwin, The Economy of Vegetation, J. Johnson, page 117
    • They bathed shivering in the cold waves, green hyaline swells in which they stood to the hips savage, intimate, comradely.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!

Noun

hyaline (countable and uncountable, plural hyalines)

  1. (poetic) Anything glassy, translucent or transparent; the sea or sky.
    • The clear hyaline, the glassy sea.1667, John Milton, “Book VII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    • Our blood runs amazed 'neath the calm hyaline.1844, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Rhapsody of Life's Progress
  2. A clear translucent substance in tissues.
  3. The main constituent of the walls of hydatid cysts; a nitrogenous body, which, by decomposition, yields a dextrogyrate sugar, susceptible to alcoholic fermentation.
    • where a villus comes next to a gland the short cubical cells of the gland may be traced into the columnar cells of the villus , the hyaline border becoming more marked1880, Arthur Gamgee, A Text-book of the physiological chemistry […]

hyaline meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

hyaline in Tamil

ஆடியொத்த, ஒளிபுகும், தௌளிய, பளிங்கு, ஒலி ஊடுருவுகிற, தெளிவான

hyaline in Urdu

بلوری, شفاف, شیشے جیسا

hyaline in Bengali

কাচের মতো স্বচ্ছ

Examples of hyaline in a sentence

  • Each organism is a hyaline, and is ready for a new cell as host.
  • The sessile amoeba is encased in a hyaline, flattened lorica, which holds the MCB and connects to the meroplasmodium.
  • They are characterized by hyaline, ellipsoid, oblong, reniform, allantoid to suballantoid conidia borne on a single locus on monophialidic conidiogenous cells.

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Forms of hyaline

Adjective
comparativemore hyaline
superlativemost hyaline
alternative formhyalin
Noun
pluralhyalines

Origin of hyaline

From Latin hyalinus, from Koine Greek ὑάλινος (huálinos), from ὕαλος (húalos, “glass”).

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Questions about hyaline

What does hyaline mean?
Hyaline means glassy, transparent; amorphous.
What is hyaline in Tamil?
Hyaline in Tamil is ஆடியொத்த, ஒளிபுகும், தௌளிய. See Hyaline meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hyaline?
Hyaline can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce hyaline?
Hyaline is pronounced /ˈhaɪəlɪn/.

Words near hyaline in the dictionary

  1. hyalescent
  2. hyalid
  3. hyalids
  4. hyalin
  5. hyalinated
  6. hyaline
  7. hyaline cartilage
  8. hyaline cartilages
  9. hyaline degeneration
  10. hyaline degenerations
  11. hyaline membrane disease

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